Example sentences of "[verb] say [conj] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Mr Donson er has said that he does n't think it , it in fact exceeds that . |
| 2 | How many meetings have we all been to , all of us in all parties , at which the candidate has said that he looks forward to winning ? |
| 3 | You are advised to keep your answer to question 5 as concise as possible ( no more than a few sentences ) ; be sure that you know exactly what you want to say before you pick up the phone . |
| 4 | So poems are elusive because you get the idea that actually working out your idea so it comes down on paper and it looks like a good poem and it says what you want to say and it does n't spoil the effect etcetera so you 've really captured your poem . |
| 5 | He had heard what she 'd said and he did n't like it . |
| 6 | Despite her parents ' invitation to Harry to stay with them in London while he was back in England , he 'd written to say that he had already promised to go to Bertie Alcott 's home in Cadogan Square . |
| 7 | Something , something in her friend 's tense attitude seemed to say that she did n't want her visitor to know she was expected elsewhere . |
| 8 | Again Balfour 's account is in substantial agreement , although he adds the gloss that when , at one stage in his summing up he referred to his assumption that Asquith would not serve under either Law or Lloyd George , Asquith intervened to say that he had not gone quite so far as that ; he must consult his friends before giving a final answer . |
| 9 | she said cos she were talking , she knew tape were still running and she were pretending to say that she did n't say I could do it but she did |
| 10 | Suffice to say that I do not believe that human activity can be explained from or reduced to the ecological level . |
| 11 | But if you can raise that profile which I talk about , the of the ethics of of your trade , your profession and become , in effect , a pressure group , a pressure group for the public good , while we may not always agree with you , and indeed we 're going to say that we do n't agree with you and you must n't be afraid of that but we would rather hear from you , you 're the men and women at the sharp end , I hesitate to say ‘ experts ’ because ‘ expert ’ is a , a rather over-used word but we 'd much rather hear from you , at the sharp end , than the part-time politicians who , by the very nature of , of their role , and however well-meaning they may be , they have other priorities . |
| 12 | ‘ I was going to say that I do n't know of anybody who could have killed my uncle . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Now I suppose you are going to say that I have not mentioned the word lover , but I always think it 's ludicrous to call one 's wife one 's lover . |
| 14 | What were you going to say before you thought better of it ? ’ |
| 15 | Honestly , I had n't the slightest idea what I was going to say as I walked up to you . |
| 16 | I would like to say that I agree completely with him about the lack of tennis action on our TV screens . |
| 17 | I was very pleased to see your interview with Nick Bollettieri about Andre in your December/January issue , and I would also like to say that I agree totally with what the other people who wrote to you said about Andre . |
| 18 | wanting , you know say that I sent away for erm |
| 19 | I mean maybe soon after you maybe I 'll say look well you know blah blah blah you got you know I like saying that I did n't like kind of bloke but not like she 's such a fucking bitch and all this . |
| 20 | I am bound to say that I do not believe that this debate has reached the level of fizz that one might have associated with a Bill that was to be fought doggedly tooth and nail by the Opposition . |
| 21 | Latterly , she had stopped saying that she did n't believe in God . |
| 22 | Some would have said that he had not taken even the first step , since he had been invested irregularly with his pastoral staff by the king . |
| 23 | He would have said that he had as reasonable an acquaintance with sorcery as anyone in Ireland . |
| 24 | If it was simply a matter of the operating system , I 'd have said that it did n't much matter which of the two you chose to go with . |
| 25 | Somewhat cheekily that committee came back to us and asked us very nicely would we provide about twenty five for the force , which we thought was a cheek but having said that we 've actually looked at it and there may well be a way that we could afford it . |
| 26 | And , having said that we have n't , at this moment , approved an under-let anyway , so |
| 27 | Yeah my problem is just erm having said that we do n't think land reform should go ahead in the south because it 's a fairly efficient set up |
| 28 | Having said that you do n't know whether |
| 29 | In terms of illicit drug use , cannabis remains the most er available drug and the most used drug , but having said that it does n't present us with problems to the service . |
| 30 | But because of the advent now of erm organized bonfires , that risk has receded but having said that it has only receded , not gone away . |